There is not a plan for the Department of Health and Social Services or the government to own or buy up facilities being built. This Northern Lights facility situation is unique and is an isolated incident in that the Department of Health and Social Services has been leasing that facility from the town. We give that lease money to Fort Smith Health and Social Services Authority who gave it to the town, and then the town basically pays a mortgage every month. There’s also a CMHC subsidy that has been funding part of that. What we are doing is we are taking over the ownership and paying for the mortgage that was being paid by the lease payments anyway. That ownership question came up because we’re doing major renovations on that and for contract reasons, and the land issue reasons, it was better to have that cleaned up.

With respect to the Joe Greenland Centre, I understand that that building, half of it is owned by the Housing Corp and the other half by Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority. It is an aging structure.

The Department of Health does not have a comprehensive list of what our capital needs are in terms of long-term care facilities. The Member for Sahtu, for example, is asking about the need to have some facilities in the Sahtu. Part of our action

plans includes getting a list of what the capital needs are in our communities, especially for long-term care facilities. I will be coming forward to standing committee on that as we work toward the next phase of the business planning cycle as well as the capital planning process. Thank you.